The good day of pinching and counting outside the palace is on Qixi Festival.

On the day of Qixi Festival, the saint wanted to have a night banquet by the Taiye Pool, and Ma Yuanzhen naturally thought that he belonged to this list.

"Princess, come and see, the water is already dusty."

Bai Zhi was shouting in the sun in the courtyard, and a group of palace maids were also surrounding several basins, staring at the surface of the water.

"Where's my needle? It's a good idea to see if I'm sure I'm sure to do it once. The princess said with a grin. How many times had she played with this thing, she had already found the trick.

As soon as she walked to the basin, she heard laughter from the courtyard gate: "You never like to make needlework, and you can also take needles?" ”

Li Xuan'er pouted and said, "Brother looks down on people, the purse you are hanging on your body is not embroidered by me?" ”

Li Wenshun touched the purse, looked at the two grass leaves embroidered crookedly on it, and said meaningfully: "Yes, my purse, someone wants to exchange it with me, but I don't agree." ”

"You can't give away what I gave you!"

"I didn't send it, I didn't send it, you throw the needle quickly, I'll see if you can grow in embroidery this year."

The palace ladies gathered around the brother and sister to the basin. It was noon, and the sun was reflected on the water, which was really dazzling.

Needle throwing is a bit like divination, that is, you have to throw the needle on the surface of the water, which has a thin layer of dust. If the needle can float, and the dust and the reflection of the needle in the water become the shape of clouds, flowers, etc., it is a coincidence.

Li Xuan'er tilted her head first, looked for the location of the dust on the water surface, held the needle on her fingertips, held her breath, and gently put it down, the needle really floated on the water, Li Wen also stretched out her head and leaned over, and was pushed away by her sister:

"Get out of the way, you're blocking my sun!"

"Oh, what a murderer......"

"Princess, the shadow is a cloud, you have to be lucky!" Mu Xiang and Bai Ying all clapped their hands and laughed.

Li Xuan'er straightened up and clapped her hands, smiling triumphantly: Have I spent dozens of begging festivals in vain?

Li Wen took out two wax dolls from his arms, handed them to his sister and said with a smile: "Mo Yule, give it to you." ”

Li Xuan'er blushed when she saw it, dragged Li Wen aside, and scolded in a low voice: "Brother, are you crazy? Why did you give me this? ”

"This ...... The little doll, white and chubby, isn't it quite cute? They say that it is a begging festival to be reborn, that is, to throw grinding and drinking music into the water......" Li Wen looked at the wax doll in his hand and said inexplicably.

"They say? Who are they? Li Xuan'er is aggressive, she wants to see who is lying to her stupid brother.

"Nobody, it's just ...... Cui Gongzi said that if you give a gift on the begging festival, you will give it to grind and drink...... Happy. Oh! No wonder my master's expression was so strange, it turned out that Cui Gongzi was lying to me...... In other words, what is this grinding and drinking music for? ”

Li Xuan'er pointed her brother's forehead with her finger, angry and funny:

"The grinding and drinking doll is for a married lady to ask for a child, can your sister use it? What's the matter with Li Gongzi and Zheng Gongzi, go out and beat them! ”

"Beat ...... I still don't want it, my brother can't beat the two of them. Li Wen said he was embarrassed.

"That's good, when they enter the palace for a banquet tonight, I will ask someone to beat you up, dare to tease our brothers and sisters, and make them look good!" Li Xuan'er saw that her brother was gentle, so she was anxious for him.

"Haha, neither of them is coming tonight." Li Wen was a little happy.

Li Xuan'er is strange, aren't they the only two of the young scholars that his father likes? What is the right poem, talking about the past and the present, and there are records of all-nighters.

"Don't come? Leave? ”

"Now that I think about it, I should be afraid of being beaten by you." Li Wen grinned, his younger sister, after the match, became more and more interesting. He threw the doll into the arms of the waiter behind him, and said with a smile:

"Let's go and see A-Niang's happy spider."

"Didn't A-Niang go to the Needlework Bureau to watch the begging ceremony? I don't know if it's back. The spider is web-forming in the box, and it can't be opened until night. ”

"Just look at it, it won't get in the way......"

The brother and sister went out of the Chenghuan Hall together and went to the Mingyi Hall for dinner.

In the Celestial Empire, the Qixi Festival is a grand festival, young girls and young women are busy from the morning, and when the moon comes out in the evening, they have to worship the moon and beg.

The men's activities are mainly in the evenings, and inside and outside the palace are all men who drink and have fun and recite poetry. There was no war in the Xuanzong Dynasty for ten years, and the people were relatively stable and wealthy, and the festival was noisy, as if returning to the prosperous era of the Celestial Empire.

A bright moon arrives as scheduled in the respective expectations of women and men.

The sound of silk and bamboo in the East Garden sounded faintly, and the Chenghuan Hall of the West Garden also placed a worship platform, melon and fruit snacks, wine and incense candles, all available. The maidservants of the palace went in and out, busy.

Princess Wanshou sat in the palace, with Bai Ying and Bai Zhi standing outside the door, and Mu Lan serving inside, no different from usual.

"Mu Lan, did you say that the princess has left the palace? Why am I a little panicked? Mu Xiang, who was wearing a princess dress and sitting on the bed, asked in a low voice.

Mu Lan looked out the window and comforted her: "I'll let everyone disperse in a while, just a few of us left, you pretend to go out to worship, we invite you to come in and rest, blow out the lamp and go to bed." The princess will be fine, didn't Vice General Yang follow? ”

"Yes...... But this is a ...... for a night out."

"It's okay, it's okay, you're just scaring yourself. The saint drank and had fun all night, Chao Meiren went to bed early, and no one would look for the princess. Don't talk, I'll take a look outside. ”

The four maidservants worshiped the moon in the Chenghuan Palace, and the princess wearing the inner service clothes followed Yang Huaixin out of the palace quietly.

"Princess, my person just now, Li Siniang went out to go out to the night market, it was very lively outside tonight, and Jin Wuwei also increased the patrol manpower."

"How many carriages are there?"

"Three or two carriages, any more will be eye-catching. Lao Qin on Chao Meiren Zhuangzi has already connected with me, and the beauty has asked them all to obey our command. Princess......"

"What's wrong? Don't persuade me, I have made up my mind to go in, and it is best to make a quick decision before Li Siniang comes back. ”

Yang Huaixin stopped talking, led the princess to an inn, and when she came out, the princess had already changed into the dress of the maid in Li Siniang's house. She carried a food box, looked around, and calmly walked towards Yongle Fang.

In Yongle Fang's Luolu Lane, in a house without a plaque on the door, there is a handsome man in white, who pours himself a drink to the moon and enjoys himself.

After a while, a man in Xuanyi, who was tall and long-legged and had starry eyebrows, strode out of the house and said to the man in white with a smile: "Don't drink all the wine, I'll come back to drink with you later." ”

"Today's holiday, I specially bought a house here and waited for you to drink celebration wine, if you don't accompany me, do you have to accompany others?"

Zheng Hao laughed: "Doesn't this save some freight, besides, the house in Yongle Fang is valuable, and you won't lose money if you buy it." ”

Cui Jinyun looked at the figure that disappeared into the night, and really admired this little man. I'm afraid he is the only one who came up with the idea of buying a room next door to the Li Mansion to hide the stolen goods.

Anyway, Ma Yuanyu definitely couldn't think of it.